Awards & Winners

Melvin Calvin

Date of Birth 08-April-1911
Place of Birth Saint Paul
(United States of America, Minnesota, Ramsey County, Area code 651)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Scientist, Chemist
Melvin Ellis Calvin was an American chemist most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He spent most of his five-decade career at the University of California, Berkeley.

Awards by Melvin Calvin

Check all the awards nominated and won by Melvin Calvin.

1989


National Medal of Science for Chemistry
(For his pioneering studies in the mechanism of photosynthesis and bioenergetics, and for the application of scientific theory toward the solution of the most fundamental problems of the age--energy, food, chemical and viral carcinogenesis, and the origin of life.)

1961


Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants)